Giza;  The Pyramids and a Camel Ride
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Pyramids at Giza

Climbing the Pyramid

Meeting school friends... on a pyramid!

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Pyramidal reunion

Pyramids aren't so heavy...

Hey - one in each hand!

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A moment to capture

The Sphinx's inscrutable smile

Sphinx and Cheops

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A wander around the pyramids at Giza

Camel Ride at Giza

Yikes!

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Will we ever see them again?

This thing goes down in front!

Are we there yet?

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Anyone feel seasick?

We're off to see the Wizard!

Scarab hunted at Giza

Sue's Birthday Picnic - in a Felucca on the Nile
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Scarab found at Giza

Felucca-eye view of the Nile

Yep - it's m' birthday!

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A contented Willem

Nick and The Birthday Girl!

Our captain

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Jan Willem, sailing on a BIG canal!

Who needs a cruise ship?

Willem - Feluccas are fun!

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Tacking down the Nile

Dick, having a peaceful ride

Willem & Dick - grand relations

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Family picnic on the Nile for Sue's birthday

GRAND grandsons - Willem, Dick, Nick

Home safe and dry

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Memphis - Colossus Of Ramesses II

Ramesses II

Pondering the Colossus

Memphis & Suqqara - and "Bargaining"
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Our guide regales

Saqqara step pyramid

At the Saqqara necropolis

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Us tourists

Bargaining at the Memphis open-air museum

A shrewd assessment of the goods

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Driving a hard bargain

Searching for Horemheb in his tomb

Seen anybody that looks like this?

Cairo Scenes      (Click here to see the family photos taken in Cairo in 1993, at Richard and Ishraq's Wedding)
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Mohammed Ali Mosque

Dad and his guys at the mosque

Les Boyz

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Mohammed Ali Mosque in all its grandeur

City view from the Mohammed Ali Mosque

The golden lighting inside the mosque

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Dick keeping his ears from getting sunburned

Cairo Museum

Three eminences

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Museum entrance

Nile looking north from our room in the Sheraton

Nile, looking south

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Nile from out our window in rthe Sheraton

Sound and Light show at the pyramids -
 entrance, gloaming

Sound and Light show - Nick's own

Sound and Light Show at  Giza
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Getting darker, close to Show Time!

Sun setting behind Cheops

Sphinx at dusk

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Bagpipers piping in the audience.
Bagpipers???

Sphinx gussied up for the
Sound and Light show

Sound and Light show (in valient
 competition with the disco at a nearby hotel


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